Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I've written everything I have to say but the words, they rot and fall away. So with a hole in the bottom,… — Aly Johnson Copy Share Image
I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader,… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition;… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
“1. Write. 2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. 3. Finish what you're writing. Whatever you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I got interested in writing at a early age, and wanted to be an outdoor writer. And was trained to, encouraged to… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
“Poets have recently been misappropriating words in order to describe poetry as an economy that, outside the poem itself, has little to… — Keneth Warren Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have no college education; I taught myself how to write. If you want it badly enough, you can have it. You… — Erin Foster Copy Share Image
My favorite artist was probably Jay-Z. He's the one who inspired me to start writing music. He's a wordsmith. He's very clever.… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Frankly speaking, if I care what people write, whether it is positive or negative, I believe, personally, I'm on the wrong path. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones… — Jane Pek Copy Share Image
I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son,… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub. — Romy Madley Croft Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process. — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons. — Paul Conrad Copy Share Image
“My first three books, the collections, were fun to write and a great start but I have matured so much as a… — Ricardo Fleshman Copy Share Image
It takes only a little space to write I LOST YOU. . . . But it will take whole of my life… — Mayurkumar Solanki Copy Share Image
“You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper” — Teresa Nielsen Haydense Copy Share Image
